Development of scale to measure the perception of banana growers about good agricultural practices (GAPs)

Abstract

The present study had been undertaken to measure the perception of Banana Growers about Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs). For this study 37 statements were selected and the sample of the study comprised of seventy agricultural scientists drawn from different institutes. The researcher selected ‘Scale product method’ which combines the Thurston’s technique (1928) of equal appearing interval scale for selection of items and Likert’s technique (1932) of summated rating for ascertaining the response on the scale as proposed by Eysenck and Crown (1949). Only those statements were selected whose median (scale) values were greater than Q values. However, when a few statements had the more or less similar scale values, statements having lowest Q value were selected. Based on the median and Q values, 17 statements from the original list were finally selected to constitute perception scale. The scale values ranged from 1.21 to 3.98 with 0.5 class interval. The present study represented a scale to measure perception of banana growers about Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs). Final version of the scale is ready to use by the academician, researchers or policy makers.